June Lloyd, Baroness Lloyd of Highbury

June Kathleen Lloyd, Baroness Lloyd of Highbury , DBE (born January 1, 1928 in Gilgit , Kashmir , then British India , † June 28, 2006 in Aylesbury , Buckinghamshire ) was a British pediatrician and scientist in the field of paediatrics . Since 1996 she has been a formal member of the House of Lords as a Life Peeress .

Life

Family and education

June Kathleen Lloyd was born a colonial British in British India. Her father served as a major in the Royal Indian Army Service Corps in Kashmir Province . She lived in Kashmir until 1936; the family returned to Britain when Lloyd was eight years old. She attended the Royal High School in Bath in the county of Somerset . She was the student representative at her school. She studied medicine at the University of Bristol . She received awards in the fields of pathology , forensic medicine , health sciences (Public Health) and Surgery and was awarded a gold medal of the University of Bristol. In 1951 she graduated from the University of Bristol with a Bachelor of Medicine . In 1954 she became a member of the Royal College of Physicians . At the University of Durham , she graduated from the University of Durham in 1958 as a Clinical Psychologist ( Diploma in Psychological Medicine ). In 1966 he graduated from the University of Bristol with a doctorate in medicine (MD).

Professional activities

She completed her practical training in Bristol and Oxford . Although she was advised to give up the profession of pediatrics, which is largely male-dominated, both scientifically and professionally, and instead to focus on health sciences and general medicine, Lloyd decided to train as a pediatrician . She completed two years as a pediatric registrar in Plymouth and Bristol; two more years of specialist training in Newcastle followed.

In 1958 she went to Birmingham University ; to 1965 she was there as a research assistant ( Research Fellow ) and as a lecturer ( Lecturer active) for the subject of Pediatrics. During this time her scientific interest in the causes of obesity and her interest in congenital metabolic diseases , especially in the field of fat metabolism , arose . Her mentor was Otto Wolff , whose scientific assistant she became; she and his family had a lifelong friendship. 1964/1965 she taught and researched at Washington University . In 1965 she followed Wolff to Great Ormond Street Hospital in London ; at the hospital affiliated Institute of Child Health at Great Ormond Street, London, in 1965 she became associate professor ( senior lecturer ), 1968 finally Associate Professor ( Reader ).

In 1975 Lloyd became Professor of Child Health and Head of the newly established Department of Paediatrics at St George's Hospital Medical School in London. Despite limited space - the scientific department was housed in Portakabins , five miles from the clinic complex - she expanded the new department for pediatrics into an institute with high recognition. She worked closely with geneticists and biochemists . Over the next ten years, Lloyd trained the next generation of leading pediatricians there.

In 1985 she returned to Great Ormond Street Hospital as a Nuffield Professor of Child Health. In 1992 she retired and gave up her active professional activity as a doctor. Since 1992 she was Emeritus Professor ( Emeritus Nuffield professor of child health ).

Other offices

She was the first female president of the British Pediatric Association from 1988 to 1991. She was Vice-President ( Vice-President ) of the Royal College of Physicians (1992-1995). She was instrumental in moving the British Pediatric Association into the Royal College of Pediatrics and Child Health . The technical responsibility for the education and scientific standards for pediatrics was now solely with the Royal College of Pediatrics and Child Health; previously the responsibility for this lay with the Royal College of Physicians. Her role was symbolized in the coat of arms of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health. She was portrayed as a supporter wearing the Aesculapian staff , but not with the traditional snake , but with a double helix .

She was a member of numerous committees. She was Chair of the Medical Research Council Board on Physiological Systems and Chair of the Scientific Panel of the National Fund for Research into Crippling Diseases. Lloyd was further in the Nuffield Foundation Chairman ( Chairman ) of the working group dealing with the specialized theme Positional cloning dealt ( Working Party on Genetic screening ).

In 1974 she became a member of the Council of the Ciba Foundation (now: Novartis); In 1988, she was there trustee ( Trustee ) and 1990 Chairman ( Chairman ).

Scientific focus

Her clinical and scientific focus and research interests were in the field of lipid metabolism and congenital diseases in children, including metabolic diseases , as well as diabetes mellitus and obesity in children. She demonstrated that the administration of vitamin E prevented neurological damage in patients suffering from abetalipoproteinemia .

Lloyd was considered a specialist in metabolic diseases in children; Children from across the UK were presented to her for examination. She looked at causes such as hypercholesterolemia . She has published over 100 scientific articles and fundamental works on obesity in children, lipoproteins ( serum lipoproteins ) irregularities , diabetes, cholesterol , coronary disease, and obesity .

Lloyd was considered one of the leading pediatricians of her generation. She was considered the doyenne of British paediatrics.

She has lectured and given guest lectures in Australia , Finland , France , Germany , Sri Lanka and Switzerland .

Membership in the House of Lords

On August 19, 1996, Lloyd was named a Life Peer and became a member of the House of Lords ; she was named Baroness Lloyd of Highbury , of Highbury in the London Borough of Islington . In the House of Lords she was a crossbencher . She did not take her seat in the House of Lords until 1998. However, her health did not allow Lloyds to play an active role in the House of Lords. She was formally a member of the House of Lords until her death.

Awards

Lloyd has received numerous awards and honors. In 1969 she became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians . In 1980 she was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire . In 1991 she received an honorary doctorate as "Doctor of Science" (Honorary DSc) from the University of Bristol; In 1993 he received an honorary doctorate from Birmingham University (Honorary DSc).

Private

On September 12, 1996, Lloyd suffered a severe stroke . She had that day at the British Association Science Festival in Birmingham for a Ciba Foundation debate on alcohol abuse entitled Alcohol, Friend or Foe? chaired. The event was stopped immediately and Lloyd received emergency medical care. The stroke had serious consequences for Lloyd; from then on she could neither walk nor speak. Lloyd spent more than a year in the hospital after the stroke; after that she was cared for by nurses at home for over four years. Lloyd received visitors, could understand them, but could no longer answer them. She lived in a nursing home for the last four years of her life .

Lloyd was unmarried. Her brother, Philip Lloyd, was a Commander in the Royal Navy . She died at the age of 78 in Aylesbury, Buckingshamshire, in the nursing home where she had last lived.

Web links

• June Lloyd at Hansard (English)
• Lady Lloyd of Highbury - Obituary in: The Guardian, July 11, 2006

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} June Lloyd, Baroness Lloyd of Highbury DBE, FRCP Edin Obituary of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh ; Retrieved October 29, 2013. The British Journal of Medicine gives 1921 as the year of birth.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Lady Lloyd of Highbury - Obituary in: The Guardian, July 11, 2006
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i} June Lloyd ; Obituary in: British Medical Journal, August 5, 2006; Volume 333 (7562), page 306. PMC 1526956 (free full text).
4. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} June Lloyd (Baroness Lloyd of Highbury) Obituary in: The Lancet, August 12, 2006.
5. ↑ ^{a b} Dame June Kathleen Lloyd, Baroness Lloyd of Highbury on thepeerage.com , accessed September 12, 2016.
6. ^ Ms June Lloyd entry in Hansard ; Retrieved October 28, 2013.